Release Year: 2005 Rating: PG-13 Duration: 90 minutes Other Title: Living the Lie Director: Jeff Wadlow Producer: Beau Bauman Distributor: Rogue Pictures
synopsis
After one too many incidents of bad behavior at his last school, Owen Matthews arrives at Westlake Prep--where a young woman has recently been found murdered in the dark woods near the boarding school's campus. Owen quickly falls in with the school's unofficial "liars' club," including the beautiful and saavy Dodger and quick-talking, short-tempered Tom. At Owen's suggestion, his new friends decide to expand their game's reach beyond campus, by spreading an online rumor that a serial killer called "The Wolf" committed the recent murder and is planning to strike again. The mischievous group's description of "The Wolf's" intended victims are based on the people they know best--each other. Only when the school's journalism teacher, Rich Walker, warns the group about the kinds of predators that lurk on the internet does Owen begin to regret sending their falsified story into cyberspace. When the described "victims" suddenly start to disappear, Owen, Dodger, and Tom are no longer able to determine where the lies end and the truth begins. As someone--or something--starts hunting the players themselves, the game turns terrifyingly real.
cast
Aaron Fiore as Investigating Officer Anna Deavere Smith as Headmistress Antonio D. Charity as Police Officer Elizabeth Domin as Student Ethan Cohn as Graham Gary Cole as Mr. Matthews Jared Padalecki as Tom Jarvis W. George as Stan, the Resident Advisor Jesse Janzen as Randall Jon Bon Jovi as Rich Walker Julian Morris as Owen Matthews Kristy Wu as Regina Krystal Browning as Frightened School Girl Lindy Booth as Dodger Allen Paul James as Lewis Sandra McCoy as Mercedes Stephanie Nicole Kelley as Lesbian Student Zach Dulli as Underclassman #1
quote
Owen Matthews: This is high school. Nothing's for real.
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CRY_WOLF is a formula slasher film that revels in its clichés. The best that you can probably say about it is that it isn't as bad as you expected. What saves it from oblivion is a nice set of mainly predictable ending twists and a single slightly interesting performance by Lindy Booth as a fetching redhead named Dodger. (Her mother is a "Dickens scholar," hence the unusual first name.) Most of these dying teenager movies just count down to the last one alive, TEN LITTLE INDIANS style. What is different about CRY_WOLF is that it isn't clear for some time how much, if any, of what is happening is all one big hoax.
